Baring the Device: Ethics in Publishing

The Gravity of the Thing’s editors have compiled a brief list of resources that relate to ethical practices in publishing. Here are a few ways writers, editors, and publishers are critically analyzing literary craft and publishing processes.

Spell Bound | Deborah Scott Studebaker

"I need the flash and the light / the steam         and the             boat / the spit             and the             fire / but I cannot seem to recognize / the scrap without the book / the land without the mark / the end without the stop."

Selected Poems | Venya Gushchin

"i can see / a gull drop foot by foot like it was copy / pasted down the pillar-canvas, falling / right on my eyes. collision is delight / embodied, rerun bodies form a rhyme / already used, already used to long / silences..."

Spruce Traps | Jordan Marzka

"Buried in a pit of snow was the place to begin, so it began. The weight pressed downward on the body, as the body yielded to the mind. The mind pressed itself against the narrative of it all..."

Love in the End Times, What to Do with the Girl on the Dance Floor | Lydia Bennett

"The pink hot light of your glance / Is enough to have me in hiccups. / Fitful grapefruits, / spaying from my dancing body. / I’d bite, but I know the bitterness / to be a fruit fly, that unsettles my appetite..."

Anagram of My Name Ending in Agreement | Marceline White

"Meanwhile, I entrance, rain nectar in tree / create menace, mine wealthier men / Meanwhile, I cartwheel, enact / entire arc in air, nice / Meanwhile I mince..."

Heart-Foal | Lily Holloway

"Today a self that burns to look at ditched roadside / [not sure abandonment is self-flagellation or survival] / broke open and spiraled out / another junked failure-self..."